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Masil al-Jizl was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the Arab-Israeli War. It was attacked and depopulated on May 31, 1948 as part of Operation Gideon.HistoryThere were several archeological sites in the vicinity, including Tall al-Qitaf, Kh. al-Hajj Mahmud and Tall al-Shaykh Dawud.British Mandate eraIn the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the Mandatory Palestine authorities, Mesil al-Jezel had a population of 64; all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 197 Muslims, in a total of 47 houses.In 1945, the population was 100 Muslims, with a total of 976 dunams of land. Of this, 252 dunams were for plantations and irrigated land, 702 for cereals, while 22 dunams were non-cultivable land.